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Kyle J. McKay 68f4e1fc6a ewah_bitmap.c: do not assume size_t and eword_t are the same size
When buffer_grow changes the size of the buffer using realloc,
it first computes and saves the rlw pointer's offset into the
buffer using (uint8_t *) math before the realloc but then
restores it using (eword_t *) math.

In order to do this it's necessary to convert the (uint8_t *)
offset into an (eword_t *) offset.  It was doing this by
dividing by the sizeof(size_t).  Unfortunately sizeof(size_t)
is not same as sizeof(eword_t) on all platforms.

This causes illegal memory accesses and other bad things to
happen when attempting to use bitmaps on those platforms.

Fix this by dividing by the sizeof(eword_t) instead which
will always be correct for all platforms.

Signed-off-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-22 16:21:16 -07:00
Vicent Marti e1273106f6 ewah: compressed bitmap implementation
EWAH is a word-aligned compressed variant of a bitset (i.e. a data
structure that acts as a 0-indexed boolean array for many entries).

It uses a 64-bit run-length encoding (RLE) compression scheme,
trading some compression for better processing speed.

The goal of this word-aligned implementation is not to achieve
the best compression, but rather to improve query processing time.
As it stands right now, this EWAH implementation will always be more
efficient storage-wise than its uncompressed alternative.

EWAH arrays will be used as the on-disk format to store reachability
bitmaps for all objects in a repository while keeping reasonable sizes,
in the same way that JGit does.

This EWAH implementation is a mostly straightforward port of the
original `javaewah` library that JGit currently uses. The library is
self-contained and has been embedded whole (4 files) inside the `ewah`
folder to ease redistribution.

The library is re-licensed under the GPLv2 with the permission of Daniel
Lemire, the original author. The source code for the C version can
be found on GitHub:

	https://github.com/vmg/libewok

The original Java implementation can also be found on GitHub:

	https://github.com/lemire/javaewah

[jc: stripped debug-only code per Peff's $gmane/239768]

Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-30 12:17:20 -08:00